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An estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States. Only one in 10,000 are found dead. Yet unsolved child murders are almost a daily occurrence - of nearly 52,000 juvenile homicides between 1980 and 2008, more than 20 percent remain open. Drawing on FBI reports, police and court records, and interviews with victims’ families, this book provides details and evidence for 18 unsolved cases from 1956 to 1998.

On February 6th, 2008, 48-year-old Judith Petty left her grandmother's house to return some books at a library three blocks away. After that we don't know what happened. That night her family starts searching all over Parkersburg, West Virginia for her. The next day her father drives out to the family farm to find their property engulfed in flames. When the fire went out, her father found Judith's remains in the cellar. The medical examiner stated that Judith was dead before the fire. Now, fifteen years later, local law enforcement says it was a suicide or that she must have died of natural ...

Hosts Brian D’Ambrosio and John Hooks examine the most notorious murders in Montana’s history.

In 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a widely admired scholar at just forty-one years old. He was teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School where he was seen as the heir apparent to his mentor, Mircea Eliade, a fellow Romanian expatriate and the founding father of the field of religious studies, who had died a few years earlier.